{"id":6609,"date":"2012-01-14T10:31:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T10:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.tehelka.com\/?p=6609"},"modified":"2012-01-14T10:31:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T10:31:03","slug":"movies-to-watch-out-for-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/movies-to-watch-out-for-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies To Watch Out For In 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bollywood<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Grand Revival<\/strong><\/em>
\nAGNEEPATH<\/span><\/strong>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Karan Malhotra
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra
\nPLOT:<\/strong>\u00a0In this cult classic remake, young Vijay Chauhan grows up to be a don and takes on the crime lord who murdered his father. Hrithik Roshan will have to go through his very own path of fire to meet expectations.
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\n\"\"<\/a>In the Fast Lane<\/strong><\/em>
\nSHANGHAI<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Dibakar Banerjee
\nCAST:\u00a0<\/strong>Abhay Deol, Kalki Koechlin
\nPLOT:<\/strong>\u00a0Shot in a record time of over 40 days, this one seems to be riding on the anti-corruption movement. A political thriller about the rise of the common man.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Dirty Money<\/em><\/strong>
\nGANGS OF WASSEYPUR\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Anurag Kashyap
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Manoj Bajpai, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
\nPLOT:\u00a0<\/strong>Revolving around the coal mine mafia in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, Kashyap\u2019s new film is based on Surajbhan Singh, the Bihar politician convicted for murder.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Be a Joyrider<\/strong><\/em>
\nFERRARI KI SAWAARI<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:\u00a0<\/strong>Rajesh Mapuskar
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani
\nPLOT:<\/strong>\u00a0We finally get Sharman Joshi in a lead role. The only hints we\u2019ve got are that it\u2019s a family comedy, has been shot on busy roads and is a joyride, pun fully intended.
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\n\"\"<\/a>The Sound of Silence<\/strong><\/em>
\nBARFEE<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Anurag Basu
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra
\nPLOT:<\/strong>\u00a0Romance, murder and mystery centring on a deaf man and a mentally challenged girl. Ranbir and Priyanka need to shed any vestiges of glamour to make us believe in them.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Kitsch Competition
\nROWDY RATHORE VS DABANGG 2<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\nROWDY RATHORE
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Prabhu Deva
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha
\nPLOT:<\/strong>\u00a0He\u2019s been a thief, he\u2019s been a cop and he\u2019s done double roles. Now he does them all together. Nineties\u2019 nostalgia vis-\u00e0-vis Akshay Kumar.
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\n\"\"<\/a>DABANGG 2<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Arbaaz Khan
\nCAST:\u00a0<\/strong>Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha
\nPLOT:\u00a0<\/strong>All we know is that the action shifts from the hinterlands of UP to Mumbai. All the more room for bigger, badder adventures.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Top Secret Project<\/strong><\/em>
\nTALAASH<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Reema Kagti
\nCAST:\u00a0<\/strong>Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor
\nPLOT:\u00a0<\/strong>Aamir Khan the cop is back. This movie is topping everyone\u2019s wishlist. Backing him are Zoya Akhtar and the Farhan Akhtar-Ritesh Sidhwani team that gave us Dil Chahta Hai and Rock On!! So far so good.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Oh God! Please be Done Already<\/strong><\/em>
\nAGENT VINOD<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Sriram Raghavan
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor
\nPLOT:\u00a0<\/strong>The long-awaited detective story has kept us in suspense for quite a while. Come summer, we get to watch the real-life couple romance each other in this spy thriller.
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\n\"\"<\/a>True Story Bro<\/strong><\/em>
\nBHAAG MILKHA BHAAG
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor
\nPLOT:<\/strong>\u00a0Milkha Singh made India\u2019s presence felt at the Olympics. Farhan Akhtar plays \u2018The Flying Sikh\u2019 in this official biopic.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Because We Can\u2019t Do Without Sallu<\/strong><\/em>
\nEK THA TIGER<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Kabir Khan
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif
\nPLOT:\u00a0<\/strong>The director gave us Kabul Express and New York, and the actor gave us Ready and Bodyguard. So how does anyone predict Ek Tha Tiger\u2019s plot? It\u2019s got international espionage, stolen technology, crossborder romance and action that spans the globe.<\/p>\n

CROSSOVERS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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\n\"\"<\/a>Adaptation Smackdown
\nMIDNIGHT\u2019S CHILDREN VS LIFE OF PI VS THE GREAT GATSBY<\/strong><\/em>
\nMIDNIGHT\u2019S CHILDREN<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Deepa Mehta
\nCAST:\u00a0<\/strong>Satya Bhabha, Shriya Saran
\nPLOT:\u00a0<\/strong>Protagonist Saleem Sinai was born a telepath, at the exact moment of India\u2019s Independence. Shot under wraps in Sri Lanka, this is the much-awaited adaptation of Salman Rushdie\u2019s tale of a newly-liberated India.
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\n\"\"<\/a>LIFE OF PI<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Ang Lee
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Tobey Maguire
\nPLOT:\u00a0<\/strong>Yann Martel\u2019s surreal story of survival finds itself in the hands of Ang Lee. We know the man can give us brea thtaking visuals, but how does one tell the story of a boy adrift on a boat with a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Bengal Tiger?
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\n\"\"<\/a>THE GREAT GATSBY<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Baz Luhrmann
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Amitabh Bachchan
\nPLOT:<\/strong>\u00a0The story of Jay Gatsby\u2019s life is a modern literary classic. F Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s novel on the \u2018roaring twenties\u2019 in America has been adapted time and again for the big screen. But we\u2019ll still watch it. If only to see DiCaprio and Bachchan share a frame.
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BANGLA<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Men and Machines
\n<\/strong><\/em>LAPTOP<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Kaushik Ganguly
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Rahul Bose, Churni Ganguly
\nPLOT:\u00a0<\/strong>The protagonist is a lost laptop that gets passed on to different people. That is how the movie explores its characters, including a blind writer played by Kaushik Ganguly himself. Pretty experimental.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Identity Crisis<\/strong>
\nCHITRANGADA: THE CROWNING WISH<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Rituparno Ghosh
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Rituparno Ghosh, Raima Sen
\nPLOT:<\/strong>\u00a0Ghosh returns to acting as a choreographer who wants to stage Tagore\u2019s Chitrangada, a story of a princess whose father wanted her to become a prince instead as he didn\u2019t have a son to succeed him.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Man of Mystery<\/strong>
\nABAR BYOMKESH<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Anjan Dutta
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Abir Chatterjee, Saswata Chattopadhyay
\nPLOT:\u00a0<\/strong>Byomkesh fans rejoice. The Bengali detective is back and, we hope, in fine form. Fans have already started marking the days on their new calendars.<\/p>\n

TAMIL<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>College Humour With a Moral
\n<\/strong><\/em>NANBAN<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0S Shankar
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Vijay, Jeeva, Srikanth
\nPLOT:\u00a0<\/strong>This 3 Idiots remake looks enjoyable enough. It\u2019ll be hard to replicate the success of its Hindi counterpart, but we\u2019ve got our fingers crossed.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Rajinikanth in 3D<\/strong>
\nKOCHADAIYAAN<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:\u00a0<\/strong>Soundarya Rajinikanth
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Rajinikanth, Sneha
\nPLOT:<\/strong>\u00a0Rajini romances two heroines in his 3D avatar. AR Rahman takes charge of the music. Need we say more?
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\n\"\"<\/a>The One With Kolaveri Di<\/strong>
\n3<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Aishwarya Rajinikanth
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Dhanush, Shruti Hassan
\nPLOT:\u00a0<\/strong>To say the song is a hit would be an understatement. Let\u2019s hope the same cards play for this romance.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Before He Was the Don<\/strong>
\nBILLA 2<\/strong><\/span>
\nDIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Chakri Toleti
\nCAST:<\/strong>\u00a0Ajith Kumar, Parvathy Omanakuttan
\nPLOT:<\/strong>\u00a0The prequel to the 2007 hit, Billa, this gangster thriller shows us how the ordinary David Billa became a dreaded don in the underworld.
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